One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
TOM PETERSOrganizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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You are your projects!
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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